In May 2012, Egale Canada Human Rights Trust partnered with Ryerson University and TD Bank Group to host the first Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, Two Spirit, Queer and Questioning (LGBTQ) Youth Suicide Prevention Summit in Canada. The Summit brought toget…

Every year, an average of five hundred Canadian youth take their own life (Statistics Canada, 2008).[1] What is unknown, however, is how many of these youth identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, Two Spirit or queer, or are struggling with questions…

Conference Paper: LGBTQ Youth Suicide Prevention Summit 2012
This Guide for the Development of an LGBTQ Youth Suicide Prevention Strategy lays the groundwork for a coordinated, collaborative approach to saving the lives of our LGBTQ youth. It briefly sum…

Original published by the Toronto Star on Friday June 01, 2012.
Nicholas Keung
Staff Reporter
A summit on suicides among queer youth has called for a national prevention strategy that addresses such risk factors as school bullying and boosts commun…

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